That’s where these drawings are from. When winter sets in it’s less practicable to draw things out on the street. So I sit around looking at books, watching DVDs, also drawing anything that tickles my fancy. Hate drawing directly from photographs, but those give you different ideas, and also keeps one closer to reality. So [...]
Archive for the ‘Brush Pen’ Category
November 22, 2011
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Out of My Head….
By Jack in Animals, ballpoint pen, black and white, Brush Pen, horses, men, sketches, women
November 21, 2011
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A Kelpie, a Vampire; other things.
By Jack in Animals, black and white, Brush Pen, horses, men, sketches, womenI drew these in black and white, because I’m practicing computer colouring. Seems like a lot of work!
November 18, 2011
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Comic Colour and Nasty Horsemen
By Jack in Animals, ballpoint pen, black and white, Brush Pen, colour, digital, horses, men, sketchesI’ve finally learned a comic colouring technique that’s relatively fast, and that I’m happy with. Check this series of youtube videos from the Overground Comic Company, if you want to find out more. Meanwhile, I’ve been drawing a stack of things. Here are a couple of angry guys on horses a la Frank Frazetta for [...]
November 10, 2011
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Kid Pushing Traffic Marker
By Jack in Brush Pen, watercolourThis kid was pushing down traffic markers the other day. So I drew him. If you see this kid around your neighbourhood, tell him to leave the traffic markers alone.
October 4, 2011
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New Comic – “The Golden Calf”
By Jack in black and white, Brush Pen, comicsI don’t really know where this comic came from, because it grew out of the first panel, and I took it from there without knowing about characters, or a joke, only that I had to do a six panel story. Guess I was influenced by reading about R. Crumb’s “The Book of Genesis,” because I’m [...]
September 26, 2011
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The Little Book
By Jack in ballpoint pen, black and white, Brush Pen, men, sketchesWhile i haven’t posted here for a few days (been busy here on my tumblr doing exciting gardening videos), I’ve still been drawing, so there’s a backlog of things to put up. Today it’s black and white drawings from my small sketchbook. I’ve labelled it “VL” –not that that means anything, but it’s something I [...]
March 23, 2011
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Crumby Mood
By Jack in Brush Pen, colour, sketches, womenI’m grouchy today, so this R. Crumb-influenced drawing of a young woman is appropriate.
March 11, 2011
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New theme, same old drawings.
By Jack in black and white, Brush Pen, colour, men, Pen & Ink, sketches, watercolour, womenFinally chose a new theme I like for the blog. It wasn’t easy! It will take me a while to get used to this one, but at least all the little details seem to work. On the old one, that wasn’t the case. I still might change the font for the headings, if my meagre [...]
March 9, 2011
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Alsatian
By Jack in Animals, Brush Pen, colour, dogs, men, Montreal, Pen & Ink, watercolour, womenThe drawings look more realistic when copied from photographs. My problem is, it’s boring to draw from photographs. I’m painting shapes rather than trying to think around an object. Oh, I just remembered. Drew some sketches on the metro the other day. These to me are the best faces. I don’t know they have a [...]
March 2, 2011
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The Case of the Exploding Electric Toothbrush
By Jack in Brush Pen, cartoons, colour, ruttan's place, sketches, watercolourI’ve been using an electric toothbrush for a couple of months. A little nervous about it at first, because the sound of it in my mouth was like the dental tools which still make me shivery. But it seemed to do a great job polishing the teeth, making them white and shiny. That was until [...]
February 21, 2011
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Light Box Mark II
By Jack in Brush Pen, cartoons, cats, colour, ruttan's place, sketchesAs related in an earlier post on my tumblr blog, this year I built a light box, to trace drawings for watercolours. It was made out of a cardboard box my scanner came in, a couple of dollar store LED light bars, and a square of frosted glass I’d found in an alley. It was [...]
February 20, 2011
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Sunday Things
By Jack in Animals, Brush Pen, cats, colour, Nora the cat, sketches, wash, womenI’m not relating to Sundays much. Thought I’d get some time off, but I’ve got to prepare for a meeting and some work. Still, I found time to sketch these things. Small cat, and some dame. I don’t call them watercolours because they involve the brush pen, and aren’t pure. I like modelling things in [...]
February 17, 2011
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Nonce Sketch
By Jack in black and white, Brush Pen, men, sketches, womenDrew this in bed last night, after a hard day/busy night. Going to relax today. I’m still in this clipped mode of writing after doing too much twitter. Obviously I have to get out more. Feel as if I’m sending out telegrams. ….stop …. Anyhow, I think I rocked the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) on [...]
January 28, 2011
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Fillin’ in pages
By Jack in ballpoint pen, black and white, Brush Pen, men, sketches, womenThis is my black and white book, which doesn’t take colour all that well (except when it’s all I’ve got!). Still, it’s fun to draw in black and white with the brush pen, and various roller pens. Not as elite as the dip pen, however. But still pleasant to scratch back and forth, making those [...]
